Everyone is an artist because everyone creates, but not everyone knows it. Just how much do you know about the art world? Find out with our fun art trivia questions and answers. How many will you get right?
20 Art Trivia Questions
These art trivia questions will test your knowledge of the whole scope of the art world. Good luck!
1. In which city is the Louvre art museum?
Show answer
Paris.
2. The British artist George Stubbs is most noted for his paintings of which animal?
Show answer
Horses.
3. Which Italian artist’s surname literally means “Little barrel” when translated to English?
Show answer
Sandro Botticelli.
4. Who painted the “Mona Lisa”?
Show answer
Leonardo da Vinci.
5. Which sculptor’s works include “The Age of Bronze” and “The Thinker”?
Show answer
Auguste Rodin.
6. Which artistic movement of early 20th century America featured scenes of urban realism, particularly in New York, and is associated with artists such as Robert Henri and George Bellows?
Show answer
The Ashcan School.
7. With which art movement was Salvador Dali associated?
Show answer
Surrealism.
8. Which artist’s paintings include “Irises” and “Poppies”?
Show answer
Vincent van Gogh.
9. Hans Holbein the Younger was the official portrait artist of which English king?
Show answer
Henry VIII.
10. With which art form was Robert Frank most associated?
Show answer
Photography.
11. Which art period’s French name literally means “rebirth” when translated to English?
Show answer
Renaissance.
12. Which architect designed New York’s Guggenheim Museum?
Show answer
Frank Lloyd Wright.
13. English artist Grayson Perry is a leading contemporary exponent of which form of the arts?
Show answer
Ceramics.
14. “Girl Before a Mirror” and “The Weeping Woman” are paintings by which Spanish artist?
Show answer
Pablo Picasso.
15. Which mainly French art movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose name was coined by the art critic Roger Fry, is characterised by artists attempting to evoke emotion rather than realism?
Show answer
Post Impressionism.
16. Which ancient Greek sculpture was discovered on the island of Milos in 1820?
Show answer
The Venus de Milo.
17. “Woman with a Parasol” and “Water Lilies” are paintings by which French impressionist artist?
Show answer
Claude Monet.
18. Which French artist is famous for his drawing and paintings of ballerinas?
Show answer
Edgar Degas.
19. Which leading American abstract expressionist artist, born in 1912, was noted for his technique of pouring or splashing household paint onto horizontal canvases, a method known as the “drip technique”?
Show answer
Jackson Pollock.
20. Which controversial photographer, known for his black and white photographs of celebrities and nudes, died in 1989 aged 42?
Show answer
Robert Mapplethorpe.
More Trivia Quizzes
If you enjoyed our art trivia questions, be sure to take a look around the rest of LaffGaff for lots more free trivia quizzes, such as these:
